Rants, raves, and ramblings

Rants, raves, and ramblings

Sunday, August 17, 2008

South Beach: like a bad hotels.com commercial

Side boob, bottom boob, bare boob, fake boob, upside down boob. I am in the land of titties and Lamborghinis. And if you know me at all, those 2 things are at the very top of my list. Big Willy was spot on with his 1998 hit "Miami." Last night we started at a bar called Wet Willies. It's like 7 eleven but for raging alcoholics. 20 flavors of slurpies with a majority containing 153 proof grain alcohol. How you like them apples. We went for dinner at Nikki Beach. I give that place 2 thumbs down. Nice establishment, horrible service. Then ended at Red Room where we partied till they closed.

Lounging at the beach at The Shore Club right now. Infinity pools, hot tubs, some sick obsession with outdoor beds, and DJs spinning club music 24/7. Picture a late 90s early 2000s music video.

Friday, August 15, 2008

i luv electric


Here's my latest pair of shades. I love them. If this pair gets lost, stolen, pooped on, or anything else but staying on my pretty little head, I will murder. I will kill.

Monday, August 11, 2008

That's your opinion

Saw this anonymous comment on /. regarding a new IT security book that is out, The Pragmatic CSO: 12 Steps to become a Pragmatic CSO.


"It's not about technology -- it's about business.


No.

The entire IT world currently exists for its own sake. The business world has discovered they can use it, to some extent, but let's not take that too far in ascribing a raison d'etre to all things tech.

We have computers because geeks like toys. In order to afford more toys, we whore ourselves out to the business world... But the relationship ends there. If we can help our employers make more shiny colorful reports measuring how much money we waste on blue vs green widget paint, great, good for them (and the landfills). If not... I can't speak for everyone on Slashdot, but at the end of the day, I go home and do my best not to think about work.

Yet, I still go home, fire up my PC, and continue improving the very skills that make me valuable to my employer (I'll skip the obvious gaming and p0rn jokes here). I, as I believe of most geeks, do it for its own sake, because I love technology and toys - Not because I have some BS "compelling business case" to dedicate much of my life to technology for the gain of CEOs who wouldn't give me the time of day to spit on me if they came across me dying in the desert."